Opinion

Barbara Fister sees common issues -- and reasons for scholars to pay closer attention -- in the debates over Facebook privacy, Google's library project, and the relationship between academics, libraries and journals.

A befuddled correspondent writes: I'm an adjunct with a Ph.D. and plenty of upper level experience via a former full-time...

Sustainability’s a huge topic. And higher education is an industrial sector not renowned for the agility of its participants. So...

I was watching the BBC yesterday afternoon when they cut in with breaking news of the shootings at Northern Illinois...

Andrew Ross questions the motives and assumptions behind the push by American universities to open campuses abroad.

Every parent's nightmare happened again, this time at NIU. My condolences to the students, faculty, and families there. It's scary...

Valentine's Day. Time to pull out your Shakespeare's Sonnets, choose one to type up in a fancy font for that...

A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...